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A film adaptation of the Broadway musical set in 1920's Chicago. This is the story of Velma Kelly, a Vaudeville star, who gains infamy after she shoots her husband dead in a cold blooded attack. Velma finds herself in prison with Roxie Hart, a chorus dancer who is also accused of murder and the two would be stars fight it out to see who can win greater fame through newspaper headlines...

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ProducerMartin Richards

EAN5056453200028

eBay Product ID (ePID)26048565749

Product Key Features

ActorCatherine Zeta-Jones, Taye Diggs, Richard Gere, Christine Baranski, Renee Zellweger, Dominic West, Queen Latifah, Chita Rivera, Lucy Liu, John C. Reilly, Colm Feore

Film/TV TitleChicago

DirectorRob Marshall

Release Year2020

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

GenreMusicals & Music Films, Musicals & Broadway

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Number of Discs1

ComposerDanny Elfman

AwardsBest Picture 2002 -, Best Supporting Actress 2002 - Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Actress In A Supporting Role 2002 - Catherine Zeta-Jones

Additional InformationThis Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, arrives at the night club late, dishevelled, and with blood on her hands. Nonetheless, she goes onstage unhindered and wows the crowd with her shimmying rendition of "All That Jazz." Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) a young blond who dreams of someday being famous like Velma, watches from the audience with eyes full of envy. Later, as the cops pick up Velma for the murder of her sister, sending her fame to all-time heights as she becomes a tabloid sensation, Roxie also commits a crime of passion--shooting a lover who falsely promised to secure her cabaret debut. The girls wind up together in jail, where Mama Morton (Queen Latifah), a compassionate guard, is their only hope of redemption; and Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) is the lawyer who can get them out. There, through wonderfully familiar songs like "Razzle Dazzle," "Cell-Block Tango," and "Cellophane Man" Roxie and Velma tell their story of competing for bad-girl celebrity.<BR>Director Rob Marshall presents a loveable CHICAGO that shares all the grit and grime of the Bob Fosse Broadway original with phenomenal performances by this grouping of Hollywood stars. The dizzying camerawork and dazzling sets make an easy transition from stage to film.

ReviewsSight and Sound - ...[Jones] makes nightclub singer Velma a droll fishnet virtuoso..., Movieline - ...[The actors] deliver sizzling performances....This tawdry, hard-as-nails carnival of ghouls generates plenty of fireworks..., Rolling Stone - ...Zellweger wins our hearts. That's what makes her dangerous. Just like the movie....Dynamite..., Los Angeles Times - ...It's Zeta-Jones who keeps you watching from start to finish....She refuses to let you go....If musicals are dreams, she is their greatest dreamer..., USA Today - ...CHICAGO shows how much the element of surprise is missing from today's movies....It's part of the basic Zeta-Jones bio that she can really sing, and, wow, can she..., Film Comment - ...Zeta-Jones, all legs and growls, has found her calling card..., Box Office - ...Fresh and daring....Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly are the surprise standouts..., New York Times - ...It's the raw expenditure of energy and the canniness of the staging that should pull audiences in and keep them rooted...

ScreenwriterBill Condon

AuthorBob Fosse, Fred Ebb

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleChicago

Director of PhotographyDion Beebe